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Isabelle Boni-Claverie(/ˈɪzəˌbɛl ˈboʊni-Claverie/) is a French film director, screenwriter and writer born in the Ivory Coast.

She studied French modern Literature and Art History. After graduating from the Sorbonne, she entered the French national film school La Fémis where she graduated in 2000 with a specialization in screenwriting.

Filmmaker
Her most recent documentary, Trop Noire pour être Française? (Too Black to Be French?) garnered both the attention of the audience and the media. Produced by Quark Productions, "Too Black to be French?" was first released on Arte on July 3, 2015. Combining an intimate approach with the testimony of black-skinned French citizens, and historians or sociologists like Pap Ndiaye, Achille Mbembe, Eric Fassin, Patrick Simon, she delivers a moving yet instructive documentary in which "she peels back the layers of race relations" according to Afro-Punk. It demonstrates the effect of people's perspectives, misunderstandings, and the contradictions nestled in French society, where the French colonial past still conditions racism and discrimination against the black citizens.

Isabelle Boni-Claverie film directing career include directing a few other documentaries : -La Coiffeuse de la rue Pétion (The Hairdresser of Petion’s Street), shot in 1999 is about diversity. -L’Image, le vent et Gary Cooper (The Image, the Wind and Gary Cooper) was commissioned by the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, to accompany the exhibition Africas, the Artist and the City in 2001. -Documenta Opening Night, aired in 2002 on Arte, is a short documentary clip about Okwui Enwezor’s Documenta in Kassel, Germany.

Boni-Claverie has also directed two award winning short films : - Le Génie d'Abou (Abu’s Genie). According to the African Film Festival in New York, Le Génie d’Abou is a film about Abou, a sculptor who is accompanied by a woman who may be an evil spirit or his muse. Another woman with an extraordinary figure arrives on the scene offering to be his model. Through this scenario, the film explores the issues between black and white bodies.

- Pour la Nuit (For the Night), was distinguished by several awards: Jury Award of the Festival Provence, Terre de Cinéma, People’s Award of Amiens’ House of Arrest, Feminine Interpretation Award at the International Short film Festival of Abidjan, Special mention at the Festival du Cinéma Africain, d’Asie et d’Amérique Latine, Special mention by Signis oecumenic award. It was in competition at Locarno, Amiens, FESPACO and Carthage.

Screenwriter
Alongside developing her film director career, Boni-Claverie has a long experience as a screenwriter for TV. She has co-written numerous screenplays for prime time and access TV series, like French most watched series [|Plus Belle la Vie]. She was one of the head writers of Seconde Chance (Second Chance) a TV series aired on TF1 in 2008, which was nominated at the International Emmy Awards in 2009. Her most significant collaborations with other filmmakers were with award wining director Haroun Mahamat Saleh for [[Sex, Okra and Salted Butter|Sexe, Gombo et beurre salé]] (Sex, Okra and Salted Butter), a comedy aired on ARTE in 2008, starring Aissa Maiga, Diouc Koma and Mata Gabin; Idrissou Mora-Kpai for two of his documentaries: Si-Gueriki (2002) and the award winning feature documentary Arlit (2008).

Writer
At the age of 17, Isabelle Boni-Claverie launched her writing career with the novel, La Grande Dévoreuse (The Great Devourer). It received an award at Le Prix du Jeune Ecrivain de Langue Française and was published in a collective book, Villes d’exil, by Le Monde Editions. Ten years later it was republished in the Ivory Coast by Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes (NEI).

She was asked by well-known art curator, [[[[Simon Njami]]]], to collaborate with [[Revue Noire]], a magazine dedicated to contemporary African art. She was in charge of the cinema section for six years.

From 1999 to 2005 she collaborated with Afrique Magazine where she created and ran the column Ma nuit avec (My night with), a series of reviews where she would spend the evening with a celebrity.

Boni-Claverie has a column in the Huffington Post where she writes about blackness issues in France, diversity and inclusion.

In 2017, she published a new book named after his documentary "Trop Noire pour être française" (Editions Taillandier). In this autobiographical account she develops how the lives of Black people in France are still affected by racism.

Filmography

 * 1998 Le Génie d'Abou] (short film)
 * 1999 La Coiffeuse de la rue Pétion (documentary)
 * 2001 L'Image, le vent et Gary Cooper (documentary)
 * 2004 Pour la nuit (short film)
 * 2015 Trop Noire Pour Etre Française ? (documentary)